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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Diagnostic Teaching
Open Syllable
Matthew Effect
Profile
2. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Phonics approach
Phonemic/ decodable words
[-'le
3. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
MSLE
Stanine Scores
Academic Achievement Tests
NICHD
4. English as a second language
Comprehension
Syllable
Kinesthetic
ESL
5. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Auditory Learners
Reading Comprehension Support
6. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Auditory Learners
Rate
Curriculum referenced tests
Chall's Stage 4
7. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
WIATII
Accommodation
Keith Stanovich
Syllable
8. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
MSL
ALTA
Standard deviation
9. Academic Language Therapy Association
Tactile
Components of Reading Instruction
ADHD
ALTA
10. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Old English
MSLE
Suffix
[-'le
11. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
VV
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Modification
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
12. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Visual Processing
Components of Reading Instruction
Frank Smith
Multi-Sensory Approach
13. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Phonics approach
Affix
Prefix
Curriculum referenced tests
14. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
VC
Towre
SBOE
Phoneme
15. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Middle English
Six basic types of syllables
Consonant
Fluency
16. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Grade equivalents
Fluency
Curriculum referenced tests
Diphthong
17. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Components of Reading Instruction
Middle English
Battery
Ability
18. Wide Range Achievement Test
Grapheme
WRAT
Middle English
Stanine Scores
19. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Sight Words
Modification
IMSLEC
Orthography
20. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Reliability
Raw score
Accent
Composite Score
21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
SBOE
Raw score
Battery
Tactile
22. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Linguistic Method
Trigraph
Cedilla
Syntax
23. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Norm-Referenced Test
Visual Processing
Morpheme
Vowel Digraph
24. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Consonant
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Composite Score
GORT
25. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Accuracy
Standardized test
Mathew Effect
Attention
26. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Direct Instruction
WRAT
Grade equivalents
Fluency
27. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Phonics approach
Adolf Kusmaul
Quadrigraph
Standard score
28. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Frank Smith
RTI
Open Syllable
V-e
29. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Standardized test
Open Syllable
Receptive language
Components of Reading Instruction
30. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Adolf Kusmaul
Affix
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Vowel Digraph
31. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Accommodation
Standard score
Linguistic Method
Analytic
32. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Texas Education Code 28.06
Grapheme
Accuracy
Phonology
33. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Progress Monitoring
Simultaneous teaching
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
V >
34. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Morphology
Anna Gillingham
Norm-Referenced Test
35. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Pre-English
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Old English
Impulsivity
36. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
VAKT
Derived Score
Cognition
Middle English
37. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Phonology
MSL
Adolf Kusmaul
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
38. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Reading Comprehension Support
Chall's Stage 3
Cognitive Assessment
Letter naming Chart
39. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Grapheme
Comprehension
Top-down Reading Approach
ESL
40. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Visual Processing
Composite Score
Vowel
Tactile
41. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Modern English
V >
Whole Language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
42. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Standard deviation
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
V >
43. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
VV
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
44. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Progress Monitoring
Chall's Stage 3
Phonics approach
Great Vowel Shift
45. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Grade equivalents
MSLE
IMSLEC
Combination
46. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Cognition
Texas Education Code 28.06
VAKT
Standard score
47. Final stable syllable
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48. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Profile
Phonics
Orthography
Keith Stanovich
49. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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50. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Direct Instruction
RTI
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman